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WD MyBook II questions



On Jul 22, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Yes, I'll check out the debricking sites. The drives have 4 partitions
> all RAID. One of those is swap. For the life of me I can't think of  
> why
> one would allocate a raid swap.

RAID{non-0} for a swap partition has a bit of merit. Lose a disk (or  
disks), and your system doesn't go belly-up because stuff that was  
swapped out can't be retrieved anymore.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org









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